I built a PC and bought this drive for it. Question: How exactly does one play Blu-ray movies with this? I've tried several programs and no luck.
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Codec rights have made it pretty tricky to play blurays on pc's. There's 2 good ways that I have found to make it work efficiently. "PowerDVD HD" is a program you can download to play blurays. It has native support for 3D and everything. I had a bad experience with it though because it would constantly skip around and some images would randomly appear corrupted. The best option for me was to obtain a copy of AnyDVD HD. That will make blurays playable in any media player, but will always be running in the background.
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I don't know what programs you have tried, but use the LG software first to make the BD readable and playable, then you need to use a blue ray playing program such as Roxio or Power DVD etc.
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I had to buy a program called total media theater 6 it was about 20$ but it let's you play in 3d or 2d depending of course on your hardware
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Download a good codec pack like k-lite codec pack and then play blu rays through VLC
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I use powerDVD for my blu Ray player or you can spend more upgrading the software that comes with it (witch is only good for burning DVD and blue ray data disk) . For the money I recommend powerDVD its the best by far and don't let the name fool you it plays back blu ray too. I use if for 3d blu ray play back on my media center. Hope that helps. You got a great drive, put the now get the software and you will not be disappointed.
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Greetings Let me see if I understood, you said that the blu-ray drive freeze very often? so good if you change the unit of these can forward and rewind without any kind of freezing besides this movies are even better
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Yes it plays Blu-ray's on my pc just fine. Try downloading Blu-ray disc advisor, it will tell you where your problem is.
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You need the software to play the unit. The software does not work on my machine. I even had a IT guy come install and it still had error when trying to play Blu Ray.
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It will work only if you have or get blu-ray playback software.It does not come with any.Most pc's do not come with it pre-installed.
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Don't know what's up with that. Plays my DVDs just fine. If your DVDs are Blue Ray, that might be why. It might not play Blue Ray. My DVDs are not, so again, they play fine. =-)
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I had to go into the settings and change the name to PC, which made it look much sharper like a regular monitor. I recall it's something like clicking in the HDMI that you're possibly using and then tools and search for PC I think. I installed a blu-ray player in my PC and keep having problems with software etc. For the costs, I could have bought a less hassle, much better blu-ray player without the annual software. Some of my blu-rays won't play and crash the computer to the point of shutting down on the PC alone. Doesn't seem to be a fix so far.
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To be honest I haven't played any blu-ray disc in it yet. So I can't really help you with an answer, sorry
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i have this problem. what can we do? i got it refurb'ed in the mail yesterday and it plays BD/CD's just fine. DVD's "This disc can not be played" ??????
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There is no software, just this drive. You have to download and purchase software to play Blu-Ray on your PC. The software I chose to purchase is: "Aiseesoft Blu-ray Player". You can Google for that; it works well on my Living Room PC: Windows XP Professional, 3-Ghz CPU, 3-gigs of RAM.
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It's highly unlikely that this will work on a Blu-Ray player. When you plug this in to a windows PC, the PC sees this as a thumb drive and allows you to load the windows drivers that are stored on the device. I also know that Fedora Linux 17 will load this device without needing any extra software.
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I haven't had a problem playing rented Blu Ray discs or DVDs after installing the most current driver. I've heard that several people had issues, but I wonder if it was related to the driver.
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Yes, I use this to play Blu-Ray movies on it. I use software called Mac Blu-Ray player at this website: http://www.macblurayplayer.com/I'm sure there are other software for Mac to play Blu-Ray movies. I liked this drive better then the super DVD drive for the mac.
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Yes, you are supposed to be able to use this on blu rays. I haven't tried it myself yet. I caution you though. The machine doesn't really work all that well. Just today I tried to get a regular cd working properly. I went through the steps twice but I'm still having a problem with the picture freezing up and I can't even see where there is a scratch visually. So I'm probably going to have to buy something else to try anyway.
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Thanks for the update. I ended up buying the LG BD570 Network Blu-ray Disc Player after all my investigations and it has turned out to be a great device.I hardly use it for disc playback though, but it's nice to know that the option is there.
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Great I ordered thinking it came with Blu Ray drive. Can it be upgraded? I saw a video on YouTube that mentioned Blu Ray, but didn't exactly stated if it had it or not.
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I've tried a few different video types but all through a smart bluray player. What are you playing? based on how it seems to function id say that should work.